Saturday, March 28, 2015

Van der Steur start research into major power failure – Elsevier


                 In a large part of the Randstad fell Friday morning around 9:45 the power. The power failure is now largely over.
             

* The power outage that struck Friday a large part of the Netherlands is one of the largest that has ever known. According Grid Netherlands is the precise extent is not yet known but it can be said with certainty that the failure of Friday in the top three. “

    * Liander reports that the power failure is almost over. Almost all affected households now have electricity again. At the height of the failure would have been a million households without power.

    * Minister Ard van der Steur (VVD) of Security and Justice allows investigating the power failure, he reported on Friday after the cabinet meeting. According to Van der Steur was the fault ‘unprecedented’ and lessons must be learned from.

    * The House wants clarification from the government on the power failure. According to the VVD is the fault “particularly worrisome: the party wants to know how this can be prevented in the future and wonders how stable is the network

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    * D66 MP Kees Verhoeven going to ask parliamentary questions to Minister Sander Dekker (Media) about the power outage. Various parties are wondering how it is that the emergency power supply in public broadcasting have been deployed to keep radio and television in the air, but the site of the NIS was about an hour flat. MPs believe that the ramp function of public broadcasting also applies online.

* Students of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the VU University Amsterdam (VU) that would do Friday exam must now a do another. The UvA and VU decided because of the power outage examinations in different faculties and locations annuleren.De exams VU in the RAI did go through.

The UvA location was vacated at the Science Park because without power among other things, air would not be possible. The lectures at the faculty were deleted.

    * Almost all trams in Amsterdam ride again. Only near the VUmc were around noon still problems with three tram lines. The metro traffic resumes.

Almost all trams in Amsterdam reason Friday around noon again. Only medical center in the vicinity of the VU were still some problems with three tram lines.

    * It can even weeks, if not months before it is known why it took so long before the power came back on track, says a spokesman for Network Management Netherlands Friday.

Netherlands all performed double its power lines, which must be switched quickly to large disturbances. The failure that paralyzed large parts of the country, also related to the grid. According Grid Netherlands is guess at the cause of the slow circuit. An investigation is to be set.

    * All North Holland has power again <-

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    * Twitterers to include the regions south of Amsterdam and Hilversum report that the power failure there is over. The current in the Media Park, which include public service broadcasting is, is back.

    * Police are asking citizens the power failure not to sign them because of network congestion.

    * Employees of many large companies in Amsterdam on Friday could not work.

    * Hoofddorp the property of media company Sanoma was cleared. The editors of Elsevier was not affected by the power failure.

    * The fault was caused by a defect in a power station in Diemen, reports Liander.

    * Many firms operated on emergency power. In hospitals in the Amsterdam region for example set emergency power.

    * The rail is hampered by the failure. NS indicates this in England and on the Flevolijn no rail services.


    This trajectories are no trains - Photo: NS
 

    * In many parts of the province are trains full of passengers stopped on the track. Subways and trams in parts of the capital were further come to a stand on their journey, but in some cases, passengers were let out there. <- -->


    * The power fell around 9:45 on Friday in many parts of the Randstad out.

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